Tzachi Zamir
Israeli ethicist and literary critic (born 1967)
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Tzachi Zamir (Hebrew: צחי זמיר; born February 13, 1967[1]) is an Israeli philosopher and literary critic specialising in the philosophy of literature, the philosophy of theatre, and animal ethics. He is Professor of English and General & Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Tzachi Zamir | |
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צחי זמיר | |
| Born | 1967 (age 58–59) |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Philosophical work | |
| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Academic career
Zamir studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv University, going on to be a Rothschild and Fulbright postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at The University of Chicago. He joined the English department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004 as a lecturer, and is now Professor of English and General & Comparative Literature.[2]
Zamir is the author of the 2006 book Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama[3][4] and the 2007 book Ethics & the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation,[5][6][7] both published by Princeton University Press. His 2014 book Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self was published by the University of Michigan Press.[8][9][10] In 2018, he published both the monograph Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost[11][12][13] and the edited collection Shakespeare's Hamlet: Philosophical Perspectives with Oxford University Press,[14] and in 2020 he published Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice with Routledge.[15]
While most contemporary scholars involved with animal ethics have written in favour of veganism, Zamir however has defended vegetarianism.[6][16][17]
Selected publications
- Zamir, Tzachi (1999). Ways of saying : an inquiry into types of relationships between philosophy and literature (PhD thesis). Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University.
- "Veganism" (Journal of Social Philosophy, 2004)
- Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (Princeton University Press, 2006)
- Ethics & the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation (Princeton University Press, 2007)
- "Killing for Pleasure" (Between the Species, 2011)
- Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self (University of Michigan Press, 2014)
- Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost (Oxford University Press, 2018)
- Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice (Routledge, 2020)